Episode No. 710 of The Modern Art Notes Podcast features curator Timothy Anglin Burgard and artist Tony Lewis.
Burgard is the curator of “Wayne Thiebaud: Art Comes from Art” at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco’s Legion of Honor. The exhibition details how Thiebaud drew ideas from and reimagined European and US artworks both old and new. It is on view through August 17. A superb catalogue was published by the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco in association with University of California Press. Amazon and Bookshop offer it for $54-60.
Lewis is featured in “What drawing can be: four responses” at the Menil Collection’s Menil Drawing Institute, Houston. The exhibition, which also offers work by Jillian Conrad, Teresita Fernández, and Constantin Luser, presents ways in which the four artists stretch the boundaries of drawing and offer new ideas of what it can be. It’s on view through August 10. The gallery guide is available here.
Lewis’ work examines the relationship between semiotics and language as a means to confront subjects such as race, power, communication, and labor. His solo exhibition credits include the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, and the Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University. His work is in the collection of museums such as the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, the Studio Museum in Harlem, and the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Instagram: Tony Lewis, Tyler Green.
Air date: June 12, 2025.
Wayne Thiebaud, 35 Cent Masterworks, 1970/72.
Wayne Thiebaud, Betty Jean Thiebaud and Book, 1965-69.
Georges Seurat, Seated Boy with Straw Hat, study for Bathers at Asnières, 1883-84
Edgar Degas, Study for Diego Martelli, 1879.
Wayne Thiebaud, Day Streets, 1996.
Richard Diebenkorn, Ocean Park #30, 1970.
Wayne Thiebaud, The Art Historian (G.C.), 1971.
Honore Daumier, Advice to a Young Artist, 1865-68.
Wayne Thiebaud, Supine Woman, 1963.
Edouard Manet, The Dead Toreador, ca. 1864.
Andrea Mantegna, Lamentation of Christ, ca. early 1480s.
Wayne Thiebaud, Girl with Ice Cream, 1963.
Wayne Thiebaud, Guitar, 1962/2002.
Pablo Picasso, Guitar, 1914.
Wayne Thiebaud, Display Cakes, 1963.
Edgar Degas, The Millinery Shop, 1874-86.
Wayne Thiebaud, Five Seated Figures, 1965.
Edgar Degas, The Bellelli Family, 1858-1869.
Wayne Thiebaud, Window Views, 1989-93.
Robert Bechtle, French Doors II, 1966.
Installation of Tony Lewis’ work in “What drawing can be: four responses.”
Installation of Tony Lewis’ work in “What drawing can be: four responses.”
Installation of Tony Lewis’ work in “What drawing can be: four responses.”
Installation of Tony Lewis’ work in “What drawing can be: four responses.”
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